Continued Calm After Sunday's Storms

(Originally typed at about 9pm Tuesday Aug. 12th, technical difficulties delayed this post)

Outlook for Tuesday night through Thursday morning, Aug. 14th.

Some active weather in the south east us is causing a tornado watch from Louisianna eastward to the Florida panhandle. Tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings are going on Tuesday evening in parts of Colorado and Kansas. Farther west, in the Los Angeles County mountains there are Red Flag warnings in effect – extremely low humidity causing critical fire weather conditions.

In the Philadephia, PA area, the weather is tranquil. The State College, PA National Weather Service reported that funnel clouds were spotted in Lancaster County—far west of Philly—associated with the severe storms that prompted at least one tornado warning in Delaware County on Sunday.

For the next day or so through Thursday morning, our worst threat from the weather will come in the form of thunderstorms which be widely scattered across the Mid – Atlantic region over the next 24 hours as a trough of low pressure moves in from its current location in the western Great Lakes region.